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Thursday, 9 January 2014

Check out these 3 new DIVERGENT stills! Above we see a romantic moment shared by Four and Tris, below shows Tris in the water tank, and Tris looking out from what we think is a Dauntless train, probably just after the choosing ceremony. Click images for bigger and read the article after the cut:

LA Times Hero Complex: When the director and producers of the dystopian action-adventure
film “Divergent” sought inspiration for the movie’s teenage heroine,
they didn’t turn to “The Hunger Games’” Katniss Everdeen or “Twilight’s”
Bella Swan, as might have been expected. Instead, the filmmakers
recalled James Dean’s Jim Stark, the rebellious protagonist who defies
his parents and his peers in 1955′s “Rebel Without a Cause.”

Such can be said of Beatrice “Tris” Prior, who struggles against the
pressures of conformity in “Divergent,” based on the bestselling trilogy
by first-time novelist Veronica Roth.

The tale, adapted for the screen by Evan Daugherty and Vanessa
Taylor, is set in a future version of Chicago — Burger filmed on
location there — in which people are tested when they are young and
subsequently divided into five factions based on their personalities and
virtues.

“This is a sort of dream city,” said producer Douglas Wick of the
film due out March 21 from Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment, the studio
behind the box office giants “Twilight” and “The Hunger Games” — films
that reached heights that executives are optimistic “Divergent” can
attain. “It is a city that saved the world from great chaos. It is a
city that has great harmony and the factions worked — but that system is
starting to fray, which is our story.”

At the heart of that story is Tris, played by rising star Shailene Woodley (“The Descendants,” “The Spectacular Now”).

Tris is born into Abnegation, the faction that values selflessness,
but her personality test reveals she is divergent, having an aptitude
for multiple factions — something that is not allowed in the rigidly
divided society. She hides her divergence and decides to join Dauntless,
the faction based on bravery.

Her choice lands her among a group of tattooed warriors, including
love interest “Four” (Theo James), and sees her leaping on and off
trains, ziplining, shooting and knife-throwing, and facing off against
other kids as part of a brutal initiation into the faction. But as it
becomes more difficult to hide her divergence, Tris realizes that the
faction system is flawed.

“She starts out questioning where she fits into society, and then by
the end of the movie, she’s questioning society itself,” Burger said.

It was a demanding role, and in casting, filmmakers sought someone
who could hold her own in the company of more experienced cast members,
including Kate Winslet and Ashley Judd, and embody the brave and at
times reckless warrior as well as the ordinary, vulnerable girl. They
found their heroine in Woodley, 22.

“She really is very, very self-sufficient and is her own kind of
warrior in terms of she wanted to do her stunts herself,” producer Lucy
Fisher said. “She has a huge amount of inner strength. … She’s very
mature beyond her age, as is Tris.”

For Woodley, the draw was the story’s universal appeal, she said, and its parallels with the world we live in.

“It’s not just about young people figuring their way through life,”
she said. “It’s about young people being in really adult situations, and
they’re treated like adults, which is how adolescents are these days.
Everybody’s incredibly smart, and there’s not a lot of movies that do
that age range justice.”

That’s just what Roth was aiming for. And though she doesn’t
necessarily consider Tris a role model — she can be impulsive and
self-destructive — she is guiding her own story.
“Tris is a character with a lot of agency and a lot of power,” Roth
said. “One of my rules for myself was Tris has to be somehow responsible
for what happens to her, for better or for worse; no acts of God.”

A sequel titled “Insurgent,” based on the second installment in
Roth’s series, is already in the works for March 2015 — evidence, Wick
said, that the filmmakers have faith that “Divergent” will appeal to a
wide audience.

“It’s just a really true, well-observed hero’s journey, and it
happens to be a young woman, but above all, it’s a story about
empowerment and facing your physical fears, your inner fears and taking
your own measure,” Wick said. “Part of what sets it apart is someone
really had something original and true to say. I think the audiences
really smell the difference.”

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